I realized I never answered your question about the orange color. I noticed the same when using ph neutral carbon, so I switched over to bleach to do some testing and I got straight golden etho coming out with no orange change after 5 gal and the disty came out looking clearer than using carbon with bentonite. So I’m still doing testing, I’ve used 3% bleach with no bentonite and the results looked better. I’m still in the testing phase and when I get back to do the Pepsi challenge I’ll do 5, 7.5 and 10% tests to see what results that yields. With the carbon I had to do 2.5 gal and then dump the 3% carbon and put a new slurry in there, still got some orange though. I’ll prob throw the carbon/bentonite mix in with the test aswell to see if the same things happen.